Croll Testimonial silver gilt fountain, Parcel-gilt Victorian silver rosewater fountain designed as a table centrepiece

Made:
1870 in London
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Science Museum, London| The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Science Museum, London| The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Science Museum, London| The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Science Museum, London| The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Science Museum, London| The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Science Museum, London| The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

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Science Museum, London| The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

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Science Museum, London| The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Science Museum, London| The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Science Museum, London| The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

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Science Museum, London| The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

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Science Museum, London| The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

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Parcel-gilt Victorian silver rosewater fountain designed as a table centrepiece, known as the Croll Testimonial, made by Stephen Smith, London, England, 1870. Presented to the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 1883 by Colonel Alexander Angus Croll.

This centrepiece, made in the form of a fountain, was made for the United Kingdom Electric Telegraphic Company in 1870. It was presented to the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 1883 by Col. Alexander Angus Croll, who was Master of the Company in 1877 and again in 1885. Croll was also Chairman of the United Kingdom Telegraph Company, and negotiated its sale to the Government in 1870 at a great profit, for which the Company's shareholders presented him with the Testimonial. The fountain is decorated along the theme of transatlantic telegraphy, with gilt telegraph cable, putti (chubby male infants depicted in works of art) operating telegraph machinery, and four female figures, including one holding a blueprint in one hand and a battery cell in the other.

Details

Category:
Clockmakers
Collection:
The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
Object Number:
L2014-4159
Materials:
silver gilt and silver (alloy)
Measurements:
overall: Height = 914 mm x Width = 762 mm x Depth = 711 mm,
type:
centrepiece
copyright:
Clockmakers' Museum & Educational Trust
credit:
Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

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